Sunday, May 21, 2017

Cuomo's patronage mil is pricey

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s hiring of 13 former staffers from the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid and other national campaigns is costing state taxpayers $1.5 million a year, state records show.

Some of the hires are being paid not through the governor’s office budget but through state authorities and other entities considered “off budget.”

The top hires include Maria Comella, whose hiring as Cuomo’s chief of staff was announced in April. She is being paid $175,000 a year, according to records obtained under the state Freedom of Information Law. Comella initially had been hired as a consultant to Cuomo to help shape this year’s agenda after working for Republicans in presidential races, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election, as well as Rudolph Giuliani and Arizona Sen. John McCain.

Other hires include Andrew Tillman, a former speechwriter for Obama’s chief of staff. Tillman is being paid $80,000 a year in his state job writing speeches for Cuomo. Jen Darley, who was the national lead advance staffer for the Hillary for America Campaign, is now paid $110,000 as Cuomo’s assistant director of executive operations, records show.

Such hiring of staff from outgoing adminstrations or failed campaigns isn’t uncommon. Cuomo’s hiring comes as he prepares his 2018 re-election campaign and as some supporters urge him to run for president in 2018.

I am waiting for the Queens newspapers to report this, along with all their food and real estate ads aimed at the clueless snowflakes that are 'invigorating' our communities one bike lane and one kitten and one puppy at a time.

It's the 'Friends & Family' public payroll plan of Gargoyle Andy, where it's even better than having an uncle in the mafia.

And, THIS endless loop of OPENLY PRACTICED corruption is why there IS no trust in ALL branches of crooked government, and the media outlets that conceal and withhold vital information, and substitute it for cheesecake shots of the Kardashians and the lastest 'Bimbo du Jour.'

We, The People have had it with this depravity and bullshit and we are now fighting back with the ONLY method that works: a boycott with our dollars. Ever notice how thin the Daily News is lately? It's headed for the graveyard, hopefully along with ALL of their propaganda lying, faux-gressive journalists, all of whom give mendacity a bad name, as well as how they completely DEVALUE honesty itself!

As for Preet Bharara (Chuck 'The Grade A Shithead' Schumer's bitch), we've all seen how completely ineffective he was (against the Albany/City Hall crime family rings of all LEGALLY ORGANIZED corruption, graft and greed), and how he never really had any political heft from the beginning against systemic (and dynastic) corruption THIS entrenched, and that's why nothing ever changed because nothing ever changes——except how the public be duped, bilked, scammed and damned (again and STILL)!

❝No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.❞ ―William Blum, Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

❝We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.❞ —Aesop

❝The Earth isn't dying. It's being killed. And, the people who are killing it have names and addresses.❞ —Utah Phillips

People complain about Trump firing Comey. How soon people forget about Andrew Cuomo disbanding his own anti-corruption commission. What a bunch of hypocrites! And how about Schumer's wife being made NYC Transportation Commission, and his good-for-nothing Sunday news conferences, when he will be assured of maximum exposure because of it being a slow news day. What egotists!

Exactcly right, last Anonymous. Mario's son is a sociopath and he doesn't even conceal it. But, where was the press to hammer the Moreland Commission story home, as well as how Cuomo lied, when asked by a Daily News reporter if he intended to accept the endorsement of the Independence Party in 2015 (as he toured Cooperstown in upstate New York), by stating that "Those decisions are going to be made sometime down the road," when in fact he already accepted the endorsement.

And, that was but one unconscionable lie out of too many to count from this dynastic, rapacious predator of epic government fail. As long as We, The People remain complicit with all openly practiced criminal sociopaths like Mario's son, then nothing will ever change (in fact, nothing ever HAS changed)!

Exactcly right, last Anonymous. Mario's son is a sociopath and he doesn't even pretend to conceal it anymore (if ever)! But, where was the press to hammer the Moreland Commission story home, as well as how Cuomo lied, when asked by a Daily News reporter if he intended to accept the endorsement of the Independence Party in 2015 (as he toured Cooperstown in upstate New York), by stating that "Those decisions are going to be made sometime down the road," when in fact he already accepted the endorsement.

And, that was but one unconscionable lie out of too many to count from this dynastic, rapacious predator of epic government fail. As long as We, The People remain complicit with all openly practiced criminal sociopaths like Mario's son, then nothing will ever change (in fact, nothing ever HAS changed)!

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